Since Sony's programming arm has its head up its ass, I can predict based on their past behavior that, should the guys from Sony's Hardware side make this happen, Sony-owned Media will NEVER be allowed to play on it, due to excessive DRM.

Sony is two companies at war with each other: cool engineer-inventors, and assmunch IP lawyers.

At this point I don't care about the Next Big Cable Killer. I'm happy with my Netflix and Amazon Prime memberships plus the Roku I use for streaming. In addition I just noticed that Amazon Prime is really picking up with the number of films/shows that you can stream. I'm seeing a lot of good content from 2012. I'm very happy that I cut the cord from cable and am saving $1,200 a year I wasted on Comcast.

twistofsin://We watch so much Netflix and Hulu and pay such stupid overages..

Tell your ISP you'd like to talk to someone about their business-class offerings. Comcast for example does not put a data cap on business lines. Service costs are a little higher, but uptime and support responsiveness for most issues is substantially better.

The bigger problem is trying to convince people they should watch traditional TV "shows", period.

My godson is in 7th grade. His sisters are in 4th and 1st grade, respectively. I spend a lot of time with them, and their friends.

NONE of those kids, or their friends, really watch any TV shows. They all watch YouTube videos, and maybe some stuff on Netflix. They play a LOT of computer/video games, though. Mostly free Flash games on the web, though a surprising number of them play Minecraft.

TV is just not interesting to the generation of kids that were born after the year 2000. I think broadcast TV has about 20 years left before it essentially disappears.

Sony will fark it up. Even if they tap into a gold mine, their other divisions will screw with them. The truth is, old Japanese company culture does not understand the modern world of media. Especially Sony.

Yah the problem with Sony is their recent history of colossal screw ups and penchant for aggressive copyright enforcement they'll come up with something that's even more restrictive and ultimately pricier then the existing model. Its just what they do.

Add me to the growing list of people who cut the cord and now get free over the air TV + almost anything else I want via the internet. I went from paying $150 a month for TV+Internet+Phone to $50 a month for all three combined. Paying an extra $1,200 year for TV we barely watched was epically stupid.

Our only problem is that we don't have any cheap fast internet available. Time Warner is our only option for anything above 6 meg down, and it wants $80 a month for it's fastest service. The insult is that TWC has been rolling out data caps. You just know they will set those caps below what people need for streaming service. When I add together what we stream with Steam downloads, I'm sure we go over 20 or 30 gigs a month some months. Where they've rolled them out TWC's caps are 5 gig with a $1 a gig charge for every gig you go over.

skinink:At this point I don't care about the Next Big Cable Killer. I'm happy with my Netflix and Amazon Prime memberships plus the Roku I use for streaming. In addition I just noticed that Amazon Prime is really picking up with the number of films/shows that you can stream. I'm seeing a lot of good content from 2012. I'm very happy that I cut the cord from cable and am saving $1,200 a year I wasted on Comcast.

meanmutton:skinink: At this point I don't care about the Next Big Cable Killer. I'm happy with my Netflix and Amazon Prime memberships plus the Roku I use for streaming. In addition I just noticed that Amazon Prime is really picking up with the number of films/shows that you can stream. I'm seeing a lot of good content from 2012. I'm very happy that I cut the cord from cable and am saving $1,200 a year I wasted on Comcast.

Do you really find anything on Amazon Prime that isn't on Netflix?

I had Netflix first, then got Amazon Prime. They do have some differences, but it's genre specific, and it rotates just as much as Netflix. The reason I keep both is:

I think sooner or later the ultimate death of cable will be when sports franchises like the MLB and NFL cut the cord and offer their content as a standalone app you can pay for. It is done right now to a small extent but you have to already be subscribed to the TV package to have access.

Ultimately, I think that the csot of content will still ultimately rest with internet providers and how much they choose to charge in terms fo . The only problem is that many of them also happen to be TV providers as well as have huge stakes in content producing companies.